Cascading Style Sheets

Foundation Concepts

The World Wide Web (the Web for short) is a massive media revolution, producing not only a massive spike in the US and world economies,...

A Short History of the Web

In order to understand why using CSS is vital o the health of the Web, one must know a little history. You may be tempted ...

Where did HTML come from?

As stated above, Berners-Lee based his new markup language on SGML, which has a wonderful history of its own. ...

What happened to HTML?

As I've already mentioned, when the Web was but a toddler, there was no style language available to web authors to instruct browsers on how to display the elements of a page. Instaed, browsers had internal rules that governed all...

Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets

The full adoption of Cascading Style Sheets for web page layout and typographical design is the next step in the evolution...

The birth of CSS

It may seem to you at this point that style sheets are an afterthought, a change in plans for the Web. But...

What is CSS?

CSS at its very core is extremely simple and powerful. It allows you to attach style rules to HTML markup elements, such as...

The separation of structure and presentation

In this chapter I've given you a short history of the Web, told how using HTML as a presentation language s injurious to your sites and the Web as a whole, and...